Physics in Melbourne
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2005-12-01
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Physics in Perspective
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BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG
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History and Philosophy of Science
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Home, R. (2005). Physics in Melbourne. Physics in Perspective, 7 (4), pp.473-490. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-005-0222-x.
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Abstract.I survey highlights of the practice of physics and allied sciences in Melbourne,Australia, from the 1850s, soon after Europeans first settled in the area, to the present. I note recognizable sites of past and current physical-science activity that may be visited, as well as exhibits of historic items of physics apparatus. I trace the role of physics, in the course of a century and a half, in the evolution of a pioneering settlement into a large city embedded in a modern industrial economy.
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History and Philosophy of Specific Fields